Chaos Ratmen from the past

That is warlord Seeksik's personal secret mission, his official mission is to serve as reinforcement to help Morskittar, the number one guy of most powerful clan Skryre. He is currently holding the ancient Kavzar tower , helped by his right hand rat the crazy warlock engineer Ikit Claw, against a temporary coalition formed by several rival clans. Their advanced and costly long range weaponnery and agressive sorcery, decimated a lot of heretic ratmen. Those who managed to enter and climb up the endless stairs got slaughtered by booby traps, ambushed by globadiers, the deadly gas more effective than ever in these small confined places...Seeksik's large force is supposed to strike from behind and terminate these heretics. 



The praetorian bodyguards of clan leader Seeksik , a bunch of tall veterans stormvermins, equipped with the best items, from patched gromril looted armour pieces to rare warpstone made weapons, halberds, helmets, steel shields, everything's warpstone can buy.  They've  fought desperate battles against revengful dwarfs expedition regiments, , Tilean border princes private armies, Arabian pirates, Khemri legions and all sort of eerie creatures living inside the Blighted marshes. Kratt the best of the bunch is holding the great standard of the army, its rune symbolizes the clan insignia, the omnipotent eye of the Great Horned One.

 Kratt used to be the best and most loyal stormvermin, he is now the army standard bearer, displaying the Chaos insignia and skaven runes, the eye of the Horned Rat, symbol of the clan.

 

Warlord Seeksik, the ruler, he gained much power since he got that ancient, rusty sword , he never removes his helmet and the sand and blood covered armour. Too paranoid for taking that risk. That's an advice from the sword itself, The great Horned One is talking to him throught the weapon yes yes.  A huge Horned Rat's face forged with brass is attached on his banner, to draw the Chaos God's favor.

Gnawdoom, the grey seer

Weapons teams, rattling, warp grinder, warpfire thrower, doom frayer, mortar

The warp grinder is a skaven retired Blood Bowl kicker using explosives rather than the too technologic/advanced warp grinder, a more old school approach and a nod to Duck ! You Sucker. Short fuse...

Inspired by the tenderer , the doom frayer consists of a lot of scrapped blades and weapons roughly attached together skaven style.

Rattlings can move and shoot, but the gambling rule is replaced with 2 artillery dices.I wanted to make it different than the usual gatling. 

The mortar was cheaply made with bitz

Now they can move and  shoot, but S4 and no D3 wounds anymore...

Globadiers with a warlock enigneer equipped with a warpstone musket.

Jezzailachis and Doomwheel.

Master assassin and gutter runners.

Snikch blades are litterally melting, wich was easier to paint and gives him a unique style, gold bronze and silver blades. 

Abomination /

Using a metal giant and necromunda monster, sculpted hairs and bandages.Greenstuff.

Giant rats

Added that old rat catcher red dwarf to the unit

Rat Ogres /

The good old rat ogres had only two models so I've tried to change their pose. 

Clanrats

The skaven design changed drastically with the times, initially they were sporting war paints, fur with painted runes, some had earrings, their faces traits gave them a mean and funny look at the same time.

Skavenslaves

Warp Cannons

Plague Monks

Plague Catapult

Screaming Bell

On his way to Kavzar, Seeksik progressed quickly throught the tunnels under Arabia, due to earthquakes the tunnels were flooded and his army had to make its ways in the desert, Seeksik defeated an arabian pirates contingent coming back to Lashiek by foot, looting their spoils of war and treasures. Corsair captain Ibn Al Hazred was a tall, slim one eyed human-thing with  a strange - empty -white gaze. during the battle, the arabian elite corsair regiment led by Ibn charged the stormvermins from the dunes, using the sandy winds directions to strike first, the  hooded warriors were a real challenge,both sides got casulaties but no one seemed to get the upper hand,after whispering to himself Ibn challenged Seeksik,who was studying the battlefield, he noticed that his ratmen around were losing the fight, he could hear them scream. Surrounded by fast,  cavalry mounted on eerie creatures, desperate slaves and Djinns summoned by crual sorcerers, on top of that the ratmen were slowed down by the sand under a cruel and hot sun. They used to fight inside the cold and obscure tunnels... Seeksik couldn't hide , the stormvermins nearby were barely keeping the line, Krasslik the captain was too busy, he was getting rid of his black hunger , eating the neck of an agonizing arab corsair alive. Seeksik put his helmet on, made a step in front of Ibn, Ibn leveled his strange ,large and rusty sword, made a step too and just like that Ibn collapsed along with his tall coloured banner, Seeksik thought perhaps that one of his elite jezzailachis  who took position on that small pyramid managed to hit him, if so he'd better be careful too...The banner felt on the sand with a strong noise.  Ibn then disorganized slaves started to flee in every directions,hopping for freedom.This scared the cavalry, and disorganized the corsairs. The ratmen were getting the upper hand as Ibn's army lost his will to fight. Eventually It was a win-win but the ratmen loss was gigantic and Seeksik had to promote all his  remaining slaves into clanrats, who stole all the armour pieces, shields and whatnot  they could from Ibn's soldiers. Seeksik ate the women slaves inside the harem for dessert to get rid of his black hunger, later exchanged the gold and jewels and other goods to trade with a clan Moulder stronghold's faction nearby , buying their newest experiments, big rat ogres and the specialists who knew how to handle them. He kept the large simtar as a souvenir of his legendary duel win against the best arabian corsair ever .A trophy.  During the bargain, Seeksik hit a huge stone pillar with Ibn's sword just to make an impression, and lower the price. The thick pillar got cut in two ,like it was halfling's fat,  turning everyone in the market silent and sweaty. Seeksik barely recalled a story about a magical sword wich belonged to some arabian Prince a long time ago...he couldn't figure that out, but he heard stories about a lost most powerful daemonic weapon...He had strange dreams lately. Visions, like the heretic monks of clan Pestilence had, but no fever.  He decided to keep the powerful sword to himself. This is the Horned Rat chosen one sword he was sure of it.

Today he's walking with his sand covered heavy armour, and never lift his helmet, one can only catch a glimpse of an empty gaze - white - if you dare to look carefully. From now on, no skaven takes the risk to disobey his orders.After an encounter with a dwarf expedition in the tunnels,(he cut most of them in two like it was halfling fat) He arrived near Kavzar, scouting the ruins at last , the Eshin runners were good at it, the best ones warpstone can buy.  Kavzar - Skavenblight, the place where everything  started. Yes-yes, he will be chosen by the Horned Rat himself very soon. He just need to get rid of this pain he's feeling sometimes inside his right arm.

Skataplasm ain't working like they're used to. And he needs to find a piece of the bell....